{"id":253,"date":"2016-01-01T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/ttfa\/6-hiv-and-pregnancy\/6-12-choices-for-delivery-and-use-of-c-section"},"modified":"2016-01-11T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:18:41","slug":"12-delivery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/6-hiv-and-pregnancy\/12-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"6.12 Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vaginal birth is now routinely recommended for\u00a0women on ART with undetectable viral load at the time of delivery.<\/p>\n<p>In high-income countries, C-section is still recommended when viral load is not undetectable or if there are complications that require C-section.<\/p>\n<p>Caesarean involves surgery that cuts the abdominal wall to remove the infant from the uterus.<\/p>\n<p>Before modern ART was available, planned caesarean section significantly reduced vertical transmission compared with vaginal birth. But there is no extra benefit if a mother is taking ART and has an undetectable viral load.<\/p>\n<p>With an undetectable viral load on ART the risk of vertical transmission is close to zero with either a vaginal or casarean delivery.<\/p>\n<p>A mother might sometimes need one for another reason.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaginal birth is now routinely recommended for\u00a0women on ART with undetectable viral load at the time of delivery. In high-income countries, C-section is still recommended when viral load is not undetectable or if there are complications that require C-section. Caesarean &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":224,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-253","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}